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. 'NITED, STATES PATENT FFICE.

I THOMAS JEFFERSON BOWEN AND JAMES FRANKLING BARNES, OF PIOKENS,

SOUTH CAROLINA.

CULTIVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,686, dated June 17, 1884.

Application filed March 5, 1884.

. To (Z7, whom it may concern.- I

Be it known that we, THOMAS J. BowE and JAMES F. BARNES, citizens of the United States, residing at Pickens. in .the county of Pickens and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cultivators; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a vertical sectional view of our device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of thesame, and Fig. 3 is a detail view.

This invention has relation to wheel-culti vators; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly journals (2 d.

pointed out in the claims appended.

This riding or sulky cultivator is adapted to be used both on level land and hillside land, the tongue of the implement being pivoted at its rear end to the arched or bowed axle of the machine, and provided with a pivoted ratchetlever engaging a serrated ratchet-loop to shift the'line of draft from a center line to both the right and left of the center line to an angle of about forty-five degrees, as shown, the ratchetlever being held to its adjustment in notches in a cross-bar on the main frame in front of the dr'ivers seat.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the arched axle, which is made in three pieces, I), b, and c. The pieces I) Z) are angle-irons and carry the axle- Their inner upper arms, 6, are provided with looking -bolts f, by which they maybe adjusted laterally on the connectingbar c, which is provided with elongated slots h It at opposite sides of its middle portion. The arms 6 also carry the fulcra '5 z for the foot-levers It, by which the cultivator-standards are elevated when it is designed to transport the cultivator from place to place, or to avoid an obstruction in the field. The fulcra' (No model.)

i t are bifurcated, and have studs or stems z", which project up into the elongated slots h h, to regulate the distance to which the angleirons can be adjusted outwardly laterally, and to serve as guides when the nut-bolts f are loosened in the slots. The rear end of. the tongue 1 is pivoted to the middle of the connecting-bar c by a screw-bolt, g. The drlvers seat is at the rear of the main frame. A transverse bar, m, traverses the frame in front of the axle and over the tongue, and is provided with one central and two oblique notches, a a a The front cross-bar, 0, of the frame is provided with a ratchet-loop, 19, through which th etongue passes, and in which 1t plays when the ratchet-lever is adjusted to regulate 65 the draft, so that it may be central, or to either the right or left hand in side-hill plow ng. Suitable braces connect the frame portions and the curved axle.

The front portions of the cultivator-stand ards are pivoted in hangers b pivoted to de pending arms 0, bolted to the cross-bar 0.

The cultivator-beams may beof any ordinary construction, and should be made in pairs, a weight-end connection being made between the foot-levers and each pair of beams or standards. The standards have slotted lower terminations, and any class of po nts may be employed in connection therewlth. The main beam of each pair of standards is provided with a hook, to which the equalizer is to be connected in the usual manner.

In cultivating level ground the ratchet-lever should be adjusted in the central notch, a but in cultivating side-hill land the ratchet-lever should rest'in either the right-hand or lefthand notch of the transverse bar. The draft will then be upward on the line of the draft, and will hold the cultivators to their worlr.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a sulky-cultivator, the combination, with the frame provided on its forward transverse bar with a loop-rack, p, of a tongue pivoted at its rear end to the arched axle, the ratchet-lever pivoted on the pivoted tongue engaging the loop-ratchet, and the transverse notched bar m, for seating the lever inits ad- Intestimony whereof we affix our signatures j ustment, substantially as specified. in presence of two witnesses.

2. The combination, in an arched axle, of THOMAS JEFFERSON BOWEN. the angle-irons e, with spindles d, having ful- 1 JAMES FRANKLING BARNES. 5 cram-brackets 'L and studs 41, with the axle-bar WVitnesses: i

0, having slots h, and the bolts f, substantially CEARLIE Q. BRENNAN,

as specified. 1 JAMES S. HALPEN. 

